bacchants
- plural of bacchant.
Example Sentences
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He painted all sorts of subjects, but was seen at his best in mythological scenes with groups of drunken satyrs and bacchants, surrounded by a close-placed landscape.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles
The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
